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X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum

An Irish commission ruled that a former Twitter executive's firing was unjust and ordered the company to pay over $600,000 in damages.

Remember when Elon Musk ordered Twitter staff two years ago to “click yes” in an email to promise to work in “extremely hardcore” mode or risk losing their jobs? WRC adjudication officer Michael MacNamee singled out Musk’s requirement to click “yes” as unfair because refusing to do so “was not capable of constituting an act of resignation.” Therefore, the company had no grounds to justify Rooney’s termination, according to the news report. The email with the subject line “A Fork in the Road” told Twitter’s then staff that they should expect to work “extremely hardcore” including “long hours at high intensity.” Musk gave his staff the opportunity to click a link in the email “If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter” and gave them 24 hours to either agree to the commitment by clicking the link or refusing to do so.

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